OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology Letters is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Plastics everywhere: first evidence of polystyrene fragments inside the common Antarctic collembolan Cryptopygus antarcticus	60
Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity	58
Nocturnal pollinators strongly contribute to pollen transport of wild flowers in an agricultural landscape	48
Salinity tolerance and geographical origin predict global alien amphipod invasions	43
Structural colours reflect individual quality: a meta-analysis	41
A paraphyletic ‘Silesauridae' as an alternative hypothesis for the initial radiation of ornithischian dinosaurs	40
Microplastics disrupt hermit crab shell selection	38
The hidden army: corallivorous crown-of-thorns seastars can spend years as herbivorous juveniles	38
A review of clothing microbiology: the history of clothing and the role of microbes in textiles	35
Honeybee microbiome is stabilized in the presence of propolis	35
Whole-genome analysis across 10 songbird families within Sylvioidea reveals a novel autosome–sex chromosome fusion	33
Extreme and variable torpor among high-elevation Andean hummingbird species	33
Examining the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of animal tool behaviour	26
Predation risks of signalling and searching: bats prefer moving katydids	25
A poor substitute for the real thing: captive-reared monarch butterflies are weaker, paler and have less elongated wings than wild migrants	24
Bark water vapour conductance is associated with drought performance in tropical trees	24
Sucking or lapping: facultative feeding mechanisms in honeybees (Apis mellifera)	23
Inference in road ecology research: what we know versus what we think we know	22
Blocking mu-opioid receptors inhibits social bonding in rituals	22
Genetic evidence of widespread variation in ethanol metabolism among mammals: revisiting the ‘myth' of natural intoxication	21
Teenage dogs? Evidence for adolescent-phase conflict behaviour and an association between attachment to humans and pubertal timing in the domestic dog	21
Breeders are less active foragers than non-breeders in wild Damaraland mole-rats	21
The nuclear envelope: LINCing tissue mechanics to genome regulation in cardiac and skeletal muscle	20
A review of research in primate sanctuaries	19
The long-range echo scene of the sperm whale biosonar	19

Endocrine regulation of egg rejection in an avian brood parasite host	19
Expression levels of the tetratricopeptide repeat protein gene ttc39b covary with carotenoid-based skin colour in cichlid fish	19
The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding	19
Group-level patterns emerge from individual speed as revealed by an extremely social robotic fish	18
Octopamine increases individual and collective foraging in a neotropical stingless bee	18
Evidence for oscillating circadian clock genes in the copepodCalanus finmarchicusduring the summer solstice in the high Arctic	18
Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas	18
Acoustic allometry and vocal learning in mammals	18
No, you go first: phenotype and social context affect house sparrow neophobia	18
Temperature and predator cues interactively affect ontogenetic metabolic scaling of aquatic amphipods	18
Chimpanzee lip-smacks confirm primate continuity for speech-rhythm evolution	17
Examining the link between relaxed predation and bird coloration on islands	17
How socio-ecological factors influence the differentiation of social relationships: an integrated conceptual framework	17
Born to be young? Prenatal thyroid hormones increase early-life telomere length in wild collared flycatchers	17
Zygomorphic flowers have fewer potential pollinator species	17
The ecological consequences of a pandemic	17
Multivariate phenotypic divergence along an urbanization gradient	17
Vocal production learning in the pale spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus discolor	17
Fish from urban rivers and with high pollutant levels have shorter telomeres	17
Lateralization correlates with individual differences in inhibitory control in zebrafish	17
Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing	16
Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers	16
Is there a role for sarcolipin in avian facultative thermogenesis in extreme cold?	16
Science-based approach to using growth rate to assess coral performance and restoration outcomes	16
It's in the loop: shared sub-surface foot kinematics in birds and other dinosaurs shed light on a new dimension of fossil track diversity	16
Importance of the hippocampus for the learning of route fidelity in homing pigeons	15
Reproduction deep inside wood: a low O₂and high CO₂environment promotes egg production by termite queens	15
The earliest record of Caribbean frogs: a fossil coquí from Puerto Rico	15
Globally invasive populations of the clonal raider ant are derived from Bangladesh	14
Identifying drivers of forest resilience in long-term records from the Neotropics	14
Do avian species survive better on islands?	14
Chytrid fungi shape bacterial communities on model particulate organic matter	14
Evidence supporting the microbiota–gut–brain axis in a songbird	13
Leaf hydraulic safety margin and safety–efficiency trade-off across angiosperm woody species	13
Morphological and phylogeographic evidence for budding speciation: an example in hominins	13
Divergence in parturition timing and vegetation onset in a large herbivore—differences along a latitudinal gradient	13
Male coercion and female injury in a sexually cannibalistic mantis	13
Experimental parasite community perturbation reveals associations between Sin Nombre virus and gastrointestinal nematodes in a rodent reservoir host	13
Energetic mechanisms for coping with changes in resource availability	13
Fingers zipped up or baby mittens? Two main tetrapod strategies to return to the sea	13
Dispersal and migration have contrasting effects on butterfly flight morphology and reproduction	13
Hypoxia inducible factor-1 α knockout does not impair acute thermal tolerance or heat hardening in zebrafish	12
Artificial mass loading disrupts stable social order in pigeon dominance hierarchies	12
Oligocene divergence of frogmouth birds (Podargidae) across Wallace's Line	12
The probability of fusions joining sex chromosomes and autosomes	12
Evolution of moult-migration is directly linked to aridity of the breeding grounds in North American passerines	12
Consistency in the strength of laterality in male, but not female, guppies across different behavioural contexts	12
Coastal sharks supply the global shark fin trade	12
An extreme cold event leads to community-wide convergence in lower temperature tolerance in a lizard community	12
Gene swamping alters evolution during range expansions in the protist Tetrahymena thermophila	12

Wait and snap: eastern snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) prey on migratory fish at road-stream crossing culverts	12
Telomere attrition with age in a wild amphibian population	12
Predictability of food supply modulates nocturnal hypothermia in a small passerine	12
Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations	12
Naturally occurring fluorescence protects the eutardigrade Paramacrobiotus sp. from ultraviolet radiation	11
Changes in the coordination between respiration and swallowing from suckling through weaning	11
Why are the fastest runners of intermediate size? Contrasting scaling of mechanical demands and muscle supply of work and power	11
An exploration of Menzerath's law in wild mountain gorilla vocal sequences	11
Landscape-level toxicant exposure mediates infection impacts on wildlife populations	11
Kangaroos display gazing and gaze alternations during an unsolvable problem task	11